Doha: 10 “eateries” closed for Health Violations
This is from today’s Peninsula. Don’t you wish they would publish the names of the eateries? As a person who frequents ‘eateries’, as a person the health inspectors are protecting, I would very much like to know names of violaters. I would also like to see the standards by which they are judged, and the scores of ALL the restaurants/eateries they examine. In many countries, that is considered in the public interest.
Wouldn’t it be nice to know whose score was so low that they barely passed??
Eateries shut for violating health rules
Web posted at: 2/20/2010 5:46:46
Source ::: .THE PENINSULA
DOHA: At least 10 eateries across the city were closed down temporarily by Doha Municipality last month as punishment for violating health and safety rules.
Civic inspectors conducted routine checks on more than 2,800 eateries, among them restaurants, cafes and juice stalls in the city last month, to check their compliance with health and safety guidelines.
As many as 160 violations of various types were detected and 10 eateries found to be involved in serious violations, were ordered to be closed down.
Municipal inspectors discovered large foodstuff stocks with retail outlets that had outlived their expiry dates. Some 343 types of food items which were found to be unfit for consumption were recovered and destroyed.
They included more than 2,800 boxes of fresh eggs. Each box contains 30 eggs, so the stale eggs that were seized from various outlets and destroyed by the civic body totaled 84,000.
At least 53 samples of food items that were suspected to be unfit for consumption were taken by the municipal inspectors and sent over to the laboratory to run quality tests. It was found that six of them were unfit for consumption and did not meet Qatari standards and specifications.
The public cleaning department of Doha Municipality, on the other hand, referred 115 violations to law-enforcement agencies for action while issued 100 warnings to violators last month.
Some 423 entities found to be violating public cleaning regulations were fined on the spot.
As for beauty salons, raids were conducted last month on 63 of them and 21 violations were detected. At least five of them with serious violations were referred to the police for legal action.
The municipality also acted on a number of public complaints regarding stale foodstuff on sale, public hygiene and building permits, among other things, and referred several violators for action.
Some of these complaints had appeared in newspapers while others the municipality received telephonically, while still others in writing.
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It is becoming an epidemic here in Kuwait too , even in famous restaurants or franchises you get food poisoning . usually the staff are not clean like they go to the toilet and are lazy to wash their hands , Or they are lazy to wash the food ingredients before cooking , Use of expired meat or fish .
We need better enforcement of health guidelines even on Hotel resturants or fancy ones or fast food
Daggero, I have a friend at a very very good hotel restaurant in Doha, and he told me they were shut down once for having expired food flavoring on the shelf, something like almond flavoring, they had it for back-up, not even opened, but because it was expired, they were shut down. He said that in Doha, health code enforcers are harder on the fancier places because the clientele is more likely to complain.
I remember in Kuwait, often seeing photos of the food inspectors in restaurant kitchens. I am glad they are in there doing their job.
I have a great respect for the bureaucrat, in any country, who takes pride in doing his/her job. They are the real backbone of any democracy, keeping the standards and keeping us all honest.
I fell victim to this a couple weeks ago. A chicken sandwich at the TGIFridays in Landmark Mall…within less than an hour of eating, I was doubled over in pain on the laundry room floor. When Hubby found me, I couldn’t stand because of the urge to either pass out or puke. Awful!
Food in the french restaurant in Doha pearl l’Entecote, was so cold and sauce was so liquid oily,10 days ago, we were 3 persons we kept on waiting for 10 minutes at the door even though a lot of spaces there,but nobody came to welcome us and the guy on the reception said it is not my job,you have o wait the manager who needs some to be trained how to deal with people,get him some smiles guys.So bad experience.
L’entecote should be something different.
AcadeMama, how did I miss this comment? Food poisoning can knock me cold for three days or more! I hope you had a speedy recovery; it is truly awful. And you can all eat the same thing and one person get deathly ill and the others have no ill effects!
That sounds like a TERRIBLE experience, George, and I can’t imagine you will ever go back there!